Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Valentine
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Valentine for engaged couples, married love, and beekeepers. Traditionally prayed February 5 through February 13.
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About This Novena
This older St. Valentine novena is less sentimental than modern February associations might suggest. It presents him as an advocate and protector, asking his prayers in trouble now and his companionship in heaven at the final judgment.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for engaged couples, married love, beekeepers, and epilepsy.
Usual timing
February 5 through February 13
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Day 1: Advocate and Protector
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Begin by asking St. Valentine to look with pity upon your wants.
Opening Prayer
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O glorious advocate and protector, Saint Valentine, look with pity upon our wants, hear our requests, attend to our prayers, relieve by your intercession the miseries under which we labor, and obtain for us the Divine blessing, that we may be found worthy to join thee in praising the Almighty for all eternity; through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pray, then, O holy Martyr, for the faithful, who are so persevering in celebrating thy memory. The day of Judgment will reveal to us all thy glorious merits. Oh! intercede for us, that we may then be made thy companions at the right hand of the Great Judge, and be united with thee eternally in heaven.
Let us pray: Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we who solemnize the festival of blessed Valentine, Thy Martyr, may, by his intercession, be delivered from all the evils that threaten us. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Saint Valentine, advocate and protector, pray for us.
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About this novena
Description
This older St. Valentine novena is less sentimental than modern February associations might suggest. It presents him as an advocate and protector, asking his prayers in trouble now and his companionship in heaven at the final judgment.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
engaged couples, married love, beekeepers, epilepsy
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for engaged couples, married love, beekeepers, and epilepsy.
Usual timing
February 5 through February 13
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